To ask what YOU think a high salary is?

[minimummies]

Going off the back of the salary thread and the savings threads. A lot of people are aghast at the wages and say that ppl are lying!

What do you think is a high wage for say a woman in their 30's?!
Would you say differently for a man?

I think anything over 100k is a high wage for either. 25-35k would be low imo and anything in the middle would be a good salary.

Sorry should have said - what YOU think is a high salary obviously depends on what you earn and who you know. So if all my friends are doctors and professors and fund managers, I probably think £60k’s not that much. If all my friends are librarians and chefs and early years practitioners, I probably think £60k is a fucking fortune. If I’m not a complete arse, I recognise that incomes in this country are appallingly unequal and I’d really like some redistribution. But with a government who has rewarded every £10 in donation to the Tory party with roughly £110 in Covid-related contracts, that seems at best unlikely.

But aside from pointing out your ignorance, I would say £50k+ is a high salary, especially if you don’t live in a postcode that has ridiculously high living expenses.

It really is all relative.

I am a single parent of one, my wages/tax credits/child maintenance all add up to £2k a month after pension contributions. A "low" wage according to a lot of people. But my mortgage, bills, childcare and food shopping all add up to less than £1k per month. So I have £1k "disposable" income every month. A lot more than a lot of people.

Threads like this are in poor taste. It makes people feel bad for no reason. Lots of people earn less than 25k a year full time. I honestly think you’re deluded OP.

Don’t forget that it’s an anonymous forum and people embellish their lives.

I have no idea of what my friends earn! How well off you are depends on a lot of things in addition though; area of the country, debts for training and qualifications, work expenses and commute, number of hours worked etc. People who have a trade or occupation or business that lends itself to additional cash in hand work are usually flush!

£30000 gross PA would be £2500 take off tax at basic rate £2000
Mortgage/rent 500?
utilities 400?
Car insurance / tax / finance payments ?
Childcare ?
Food shopping ?
Fuel / public transport costs ?

I personally would think £2000 for a family per month would be very tight with little left in the pot for emergencies.

This isn’t a bashing the salary post either. It’s a bashing the cost of living vs living wage which is an absolute joke. It’s no wonder people rely on top ups when rent, food etc is so high.

@Eaststreet

I don’t think gender/sex is relevant. I know men on 20k and I know women on 200k. Outside London 100k I would consider to be good.

I wish gender wasn’t relevant.

Average 40-49 year old man earns £39k, average woman in this age bracket earns £31k.

Sorry, I’ve just seen it said after tax.

I earn the equivalent of £55k and our household income is the equivalent of about £85k. It wouldn't be bad if we had some inherited wealth, but it isnt enough for us to easily get on the housing ladder where we are (London esque prices, without affordable areas to commute from).

@AmIBeingTwatty

£30000 gross PA would be £2500 take off tax at basic rate £2000 Mortgage/rent 500? utilities 400? Car insurance / tax / finance payments ? Childcare ? Food shopping ? Fuel / public transport costs ?

I personally would think £2000 for a family per month would be very tight with little left in the pot for emergencies.

This isn’t a bashing the salary post either. It’s a bashing the cost of living vs living wage which is an absolute joke. It’s no wonder people rely on top ups when rent, food etc is so high.

It depends on the size of the family and household costs really. This is my income, ae are a family of 2 and my mortgage is only £300pm so we are comfortable on that money.

@Cherryberrypies

Threads like this are in poor taste. It makes people feel bad for no reason. Lots of people earn less than 25k a year full time. I honestly think you’re deluded OP.

Don’t forget that it’s an anonymous forum and people embellish their lives.

I think it is in poor taste too. I didn't think I was even bothered about this but came away feeling slightly shamed. Like I am not good enough. Yuk

@minimummies

Going off the back of the salary thread and the savings threads. A lot of people are aghast at the wages and say that ppl are lying!

What do you think is a high wage for say a woman in their 30's?!
Would you say differently for a man?

I think anything over 100k is a high wage for either. 25-35k would be low imo and anything in the middle would be a good salary.

My gross income pa is £17,220. To me, anything above mine is a high income. I'm single with a mortgage. £35k is twice mine and I cannot imagine having all that spare money. As it is, I can save around £4kpa.

minimummie - Under 25k to me would be extremely low and I would expect it to be a part time role if I'm honest

I feel even worse now!!

@Whattheactual20201

You can’t earn over 40k on mumsnet it makes you an instant troll and liar.

An exaggeration surely? I've never seen someone accused of being a troll for saying they earn over 40k. It's a decent salary, but not an exceptional salary, and I live in one of the lowest paid areas of the UK, so where I live it's definitely a very good salary.

What does raise eyebrows is people who say they don't know anyone who earns less than 80k. I cannot fathom that anyone can honestly not know anyone, even in passing, who is a nurse or a teacher or who works in a shop. It seems incredible.

50k

[quote Fingerbobs]Pre-COVID, for the financial year ending March 2020, the estimated median household income after taxes and benefits in the UK was £30,800. So half the households in the UK have less than that to spend, and half have more. So if one person in your family, or more than one combined, earns £41k, your household is in the upper half of households in the whole of the UK.
Source: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/incomeandwealth/bulletins/householddisposableincomeandinequality/financialyearending2020provisional[/quote]
There is a little of apples and pears here.

This is income after tax per household, and will include a lot of houses where people don’t work, I don’t think it’s working age so it will include pensioner households as well as households where one or both adult up is unemployed.

Comparing a salary before tax for a working person against a household income which has been taxed and could be for one, two or no working adults really doesn’t work.

Best to compare full time wage for a adult in the same age bracket.

www.statista.com/statistics/802183/annual-pay-employees-in-the-uk/

Pretentious claptrap! Nobody cares how much money you make 🙄🥱

I left the UK a few years ago and I don't think salaries in this country are comparable, but when I left the UK I was in my late 20s and I earned £26000. I had recently taken a pay cut from £28000. Even at 26k I earned more than most of my friends did at the time, almost all of whom were university educated.

I’m a teacher in Scotland, the starting salary is now around 27K a year rising to just under 41K with 5 years experience (it always amazes me when teachers down South come on here and say they earn less than us in Scotland).

Our support staff are very poorly paid I believe they are on about £9 an hour, they only work 25 hours a week term time only which I think is what attracts a lot of them to the job as most are Mums with school age children. Most are on temp contracts too so they don’t get the full range of benefits like pensions/sick pay as well. Like carers they seem to be very poorly paid for a hard job.

I work in museums and £25K is common for fairly senior roles in the majority of places. There are masses of highly qualified and experienced applicants per role so they can get away with it.

For that reason I consider anything over £35K a high salary.

@minimummies

Under 25k to me would be extremely low and I would expect it to be a part time role if I'm honest.

You sound very arrogant

Wow!! I consider my dh to have a good salary and he only earns about 35k. I earn about 25k which I'm happy with. Most people I know earn about 20k, maybe less, but they don't come across as poor to me when both in the household are working. We live very different lives I suppose.

Under 25k to me would be extremely low and I would expect it to be a part time role if I'm honest.

Well, you would be wrong.

Please do bore off. What does it matter what someone random on the internet thinks is high?

This thread is in such poor taste. Pretentious, and just plain gross.

Also op, you're making yourself sound like an unbearable wank puffin.